It has been a bit quiet on the Swift front, but with the annual WOF check looming, it was time to get it into the garage and get it ready.
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It’s been a lot of work, but Lucas has moved on considerably since the last post. I’ll break this down into bite-size chunks. This will be a massive post though as it’s a week or two of work.
It’ll be of no surprise to anyone that I have just dug deep and cracked on with this. With no choice in the matter, I had to fix it. I want my garage back for the daily.
As part of my continuous programme to improve Lucas, I wanted to get the tailgate lock working. The latch and release worked, but the key wouldn’t turn.
It’s been an afternoon of working on Lucas today, with the intention of sorting the fuel tank once and for all but ending in a bad discovery.
It’s no surprise that Lucas wasn’t in the best shape when he arrived, so I have been doing small jobs here and there to try and fix some of the more annoying issues he’s had.
Oh hello again, it’s been a while. No one likes sagging, so let’s fix it.
Well, it’s most of the bits to make an engine, anyway.
Moving on from the last lot of repairs, I have also been tinkering with a few other small issues, in preparation for a potential WOF check.
As mentioned in the previous update, once I noticed the engine wasn’t happy, I began looking into how bad it was, hoping it was recoverable.